· Honoré de Balzac was born in in France. As a novelist and playwright, he is widely regarded as the founder of realism in European literature. His work had a profound effect on generations of writers who have followed him, from Proust to Dickens to Faulkner to bltadwin.ru: Skyhorse. French author Honoré de Balzac wrote a collection of stories which were published in three sets of ten stories each, and these stories came to be known as Droll Stories. Written in a lively manner with Balzac's characteristic wordplay using 16th century language, the stories make for engaging reading/5(5). Droll Stories, collection of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published in three sets of 10 stories each, in , , and , as Contes drolatiques. Illustration by Boris Artzybasheff for an American edition of Honoré de Balzac's Droll Stories. Rabelaisian in theme, the stories are written with great vitality in a pastiche of 16th-century language.
by Honore De Balzac. "Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of. Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈ b æ l z æ k / BAL-zak, more commonly US: / ˈ b ɔː l-/ BAWL-, French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; - 18 August ) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.. Owing to his keen observation of detail and. The First Ten Tales. An enduring classic, Droll Stories offers a highly animated and entertaining portrait of life in 16thcentury Europe. Jaico Classics presents its first edition of 10 lively tales by the inimitable and irreverent novelist, Honoré de Balzac.
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in Balzac, Honoré de, Title: Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Note: Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques Composed of the following etexts, also available separately: Vol 1: #, Vol 2: #, Vol 3: # Language: English: LoC Class. Honoré de Balzac was born in in France. As a novelist and playwright, he is widely regarded as the founder of realism in European literature. His work had a profound effect on generations of writers who have followed him, from Proust to Dickens to Faulkner to Kerouac.
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